Feather duster.



PATENTED FEB. 5, 1907.

J. E. SNEVELY. FEATHER DUSTER. APPLICATION FILED SEPT.13.1906.

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UNTTE STATES JAMES E. SNEVELY, OF SA N FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

FEATHER DUSTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 5, 1907.

Application filed September 13, 1906. Serial No. 334,424.

To (all [uh/opt it Til/(by cancer/2 Be it known that I, JAMES E. SNEV'ELY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of San Francisco, in the county of San Fran cisco and State of California, have invented a certain new and Improved Feather Duster, of which the following; is a specification.

My invention relates to feather duster-s, and especially to a duster of socalled ostrich feathers.

The invention consists in the novel fea tures of construction and arrangement hereinafter set forth, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which illustrates an exemplification of the invention.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through the head of a feather duster embodying my invention, and F 2 is a cross-section at a a, Fig. I.

A tube 1 is provided with interior and exterior threads. Any suitable handle is sccured into the tube. A disk 2, having a central hole, is placed on the tube and secured in the desired position in any suitable manner. For example, as shown, the disk may rest on or be secured to a thimble 3, having an interior screw-thread engaging the tube. One or more sp acing-strips 4, preferably of metal, are secured each at one end to the tube and coiled about the tube adjacent to the disk in flat spiral form. One or more crimped strips 5 are provided, so that a crimped strip lies between each two adjacent coils of the spac ing-strip, and one end of each of the crimping-strips is connected to the tube.

The brush is assembled by placing; the disk 2 upon the tube and putting; the thimble 3 in position in cases where it is user Assuming, then, that a single spacing-strip and a single crimped strip are use one end of each of these is secured to the tube and a partial turn is taken about the tube with the crimped strip innermost. The shafts 6 of the feathers are now inserted one by one, each between the spacing-strip and the crimped strip, the crimps on the latter strip affording a ready means for spacing the feathers apart any required distance and also for holdingthem securely in place. The ends of the shafts are turned under the spacing-strips and up ward on the opposite side, where they lie in recesses provided by the crimped strip. The coiling of this strip and insertion of the feathers is continued, and to secure the strips in position at desirable intervals a wire or wires l l l l (or other suitable binding material, such as twine) 7 are passed through perforations S m the disk, over the strips and down again through other perforations, in this manner practically sewing,- the strips to the disk. The process is continued until the disk is fully covered with feathers. A cull' 9 of suitable shape is then slipped over the tube and disk and crimped or otherwise suitably sccurct, as at 10, to the tube. In the present instance this is accomplished by providing a solid or hollow ring 11, which rests in an annular recess 12 in the tube and around which the cuff is shaped after it is put in place. The cuff forms a covering and protection for the head.

The disk 2, as shown, is of somewhat curved shape, and this curvature is to be varied as desired to give such a shape to the brush as may be required.

The construction described. is particularly adaptable to use with ostrich-f0athers; but it is to be distinctly understood that I do not limit myself to the use of these feathers, but contemplate employing any other suitable feathers and, in fact, any substitute for ostrich-feathers which may conveniently be employed.

I claim- 1. In a brush a base, secured. thereon, a crimped a plain coiled strip strip intermediate the coils of the plain strip forming a series of sockets, and feathers having their shafts secured in the sockets.

'2. In a brush, the combination of a base, a flat coiled strip secured thereon, a criinped strip intermediate the coils of the flat strip, and a plurality of feathers having their shafts inserted in the sockets provided be tween the crimpod and flat strips.

3. In a brush, the combination of a base, a flat coiled strip secured thereon, a crimpcd strip intermediate the coils of the ilatstrip, and a plurality of feathers having their shafts inserted in the sockets provided between the crimped and flatstrips and bent under the flat strip.

-'l. In a brush, the combination of a base, a flat coiled strip secured thereon, a crimpcd strip intermediate the coils of the flat strip, and a plurality of feathers having their shafts inserted in the sockets provided between the crimped and flat strips and bent under the flat strip and carried up on the other side of the flat strip.

strip adjacent to the disk, a crimped metal of a tube, disk serving to retain the strips in position, a on the ring, and a cuff covering the tube, disk, and ends of the feather-shafts and secured to the 5. In a brush, the combination a disk thereon, a coiled metal stri' disk, a plurality of feathers having their shafts between the coils of the strip and one tube by crimping about the ring thereon. or more strands passing over the strips and 7. 111 a brush, the combination of a base, through perforations in the disk securing the I feathers, and one or more strips coiled on the strips in position. 1' base, between the coils of which the feathers 67 In a brush, the combination of a threadare secured, and sewed to the base by strands ed tube, a disk thereon, a coiled flat-metal passing over the strips and through perfora- 25 tions in the base.

In testimony whereof I have afliXed my i 2 o J strip lying intermediate the coils of the flat strip, a plurality of feathers having their signature in the presence of two witnesses shafts secured between the criinped and flat JAMES ESN EV ELY.

strips and bent under the bottom edges of said strips, one or more strands passing over said strips and through perforations 1n the \V; B. MoCLA'rcHEY,

l lVitnesses:

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